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Franken Amdt. No. 2588
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================================================== ============= To prohibit the use of funds for any Federal contract with Halliburton Company, KBR, Inc., any of their subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other contracting party if such contractor or a subcontractor at any tier under such contract requires that employees or independent contractors sign mandatory arbitration clauses regarding certain claims. ================================================== ============== In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies like KBR “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” Speaking on the Senate floor yesterday, Franken said: The constitution gives everybody the right to due process of law … And today, defense contractors are using fine print in their contracts do deny women like Jamie Leigh Jones their day in court. … The victims of rape and discrimination deserve their day in court [and] Congress plainly has the constitutional power to make that happen. The following is a list of the pieces of $#!T who voted "NAY" on this. NAYs ---30 Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Kyl (R-AZ) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Wicker (R-MS) To the list of nay voting republicnas, you can all go fukc yourselves, I have no respect for those who can't respect women. I spit on you... |
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Did'nt we already do this?
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Alfinnf, I'm assuming from your aloofness you are cool with outsourced rape? please tell me I'm reading you wrong. |
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Did Juanita Brodderick work for Halliburton? |
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Aside from Agent 13 openly supporting and wishing for more rapes by our beyond the law war profiteers, after all they are just women... this has already been posted, with the expected response.. blame the victim by the right and the sympathy for her on the left..
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No not wishing for rapes merely pointing out the double standards depending on who is doing the rapes, after all it is just sex why not Move-On? remember.....
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on most issues. I am also a Franken hater. I also agree with you and Franken 100% on this issue !!!!!!!!!! How the hell could anyone vote no on this issue ? Why does every vote have to be left vs right? Whatever happened to right vs wrong? |
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